Portable folding electric clothes presser



March 2, 1948.

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. PORTABLE FOLDING ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSER Filed NOV. l5, 1944 INVENTOR. 5L-71.72322 K FU 1 [2 a L15 BY f Ji Patented Mar. 2, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE PORTABLE FOLDING ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSER Semen Kronhaus, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application November 13, 1944, Serial No. 563,181

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to pressing devices, having for an object the provision of a portable device which may be folded for convenient cai4M riage in a suitcase or the like.

Another object is the provision of an electrical pressing device which is of economical construction and simple to use.

My invent-ion possesses other advantages and features of novelty which will be understood from the following description of a presently preferred example illustrated in the accompanying drawings to which reference will be made and in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view partly in plan and partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevation showing one of the pressing plates folded; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmenary side elevation of the hinge joint of a plate.

I am aware that pressing devices of the general type utilizing a pair of complementary heating plates clamped together with the garment-to be pressed therebetween have been proposed, but those devices have been of a construction which did not provide the compactness and portability necessary to render them practicable, and it is therefore to the solution of this problem that my invention is chiefly directed.

In the drawing, my pressing device is shown as comprising a pair of complementary plates A and B adapted to be resiliently clamped together at their ends by a pair of spring clamps C. The clamps are of conventional construction consisting of a pair of oppositely disposed arms 5 pivotally connected together at 6 and yieldably urged together by a torsion spring 1. Other types of clamps may be substituted. A garment to be pressed, such as a pair of pants P, is placed between the plates.

In the preferred form of my invention each of the plates A and B is comprised of a pair of juxtaposed hollow sections I I, l2 hinged together at their adjacent end edges by a hinge I0 mounted in mating recesses in the end edges of the plates so as to be iiush with the pressing surface of the plate. The hinge connections are so arranged that in folding, the opposed plates may swing only towards each other so that when clamped together at their ends they will not swing or bow apart at the hinge connections. The

2 plates are made `of metal or other suitable heat transferring material.

Within each of the plate sections Il, l2 I provide la heating element consisting of an electric coil l5, the coils of the two sections of each plate being conductively connected together by wires i6, Il which pass outwardly through the sides lof the plate sections adjacent the hinge and are there suiiciently looped to permit the sections to be folded together as shown in Fig. 4, the coils being connected to an electrical source through an end plug 20.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that the pressing operation is effected by simply placing the garment P between the plates A and B, clamping the ends of the plates together by the clamps C and plugging the connections into an electrical source.

The device may be folded into compact form by removing the clamps and folding each plate by swinging one of its sections into superimposed position on the other, as shown in Fig. 4, in which form the device may be conveniently placed in a suitcase or the like.

I claim:

A pressing device comprising a pair of complemental plates adapted to receive therebetween a garment to be pressed, each of said plates consisting of 1a pair of sections disposed end to end and secured together at their adjacent end edges by a hinge joint allowing swinging movement of each of the sections from their plane-surface conforming position only towards the opposite ysection of the opposite plate, and clamp means urging said plates towards each other, each of said sections being hollow and carrying at its interior an electric heating element, the heating elements of said sections being conductively connected together at the hinged joint.

SEMEN KRONHAUS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,474,833 I-Iauptman Nov. 20, 1923 1,584,281 Dumas May 11, 1926 1,821,597 Wanden etal Sept. 1, 1931 1,975,320 Hamilton Oct. 2, 1934 

